{"id":14129,"date":"2021-04-03T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14129"},"modified":"2021-04-03T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T20:25:31","slug":"el-bruto-1952-luis-bunuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14129","title":{"rendered":"El Bruto (1952, Luis Bu\u00f1uel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The couple years between Bu\u00f1uel’s two Mexican bus films were productive, and this is a good one – better than Illusions Travel by Streetcar<\/a><\/em>, anyway.<\/p>\n

El Bruto is an exploited slaughterhouse worker, mocked by coworkers despite his strength, hired by a local landlord to terrorize the organizing tenants into leaving an apartment complex so it can be redeveloped. I wasn’t intending to watch two collectivist worker films<\/a> in a row, just a happy accident.<\/p>\n

While fleeing from the law after terrorizing the locals, a tragic chicken murder occurs. Then Bruto busts in on Meche, the woman whose chicken (and father) he killed, falls for her and attempts to manufacture a happy ending, but his wife Maria interferes.<\/p>\n

Bruto had major roles in a couple John Ford movies and a James Bond. The landlord’s girl Maria Juado had a good Hollywood run in at least three major westerns and Under The Volcano<\/a><\/em>. Wife Maria was better known as a ballet dancer, and Meche was in The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bruto getting his orders from the landlord:<\/em>
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Bruto’s excuse for everything:<\/em>
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Bruto’s ex is enraged that he’s got a new girl:<\/em>
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Things end as they must, in a hail of gunfire:<\/em>
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The couple years between Bu\u00f1uel’s two Mexican bus films were productive, and this is a good one – better than Illusions Travel by Streetcar, anyway. El Bruto is an exploited slaughterhouse worker, mocked by coworkers despite his strength, hired by a local landlord to terrorize the organizing tenants into leaving an apartment complex so it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,6,137],"class_list":["post-14129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-luis-bunuel","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14167,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14129\/revisions\/14167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}